Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoCertain features certainly could be considered as doing that, such as:
- Firefox sync
- crash reporting
- add-on store
I certainly want those. And then there are others that I don’t want:
- telemetry
- studies
- AI
My understanding is that this change is primarily motivated by a recent/upcoming law change in California that has a pretty broad definition of “selling user data” and this is less likely to be a fundamental change in how Mozilla operates. However, let’s see what they come back with.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That second list should also include
Because ads in the search bar results are one of the things Mozilla cited as precipitating the need for ToS.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Is that a pocket thing? Because I disable pocket and changed the default search engine.
If they laid out precisely which features result in data collection by Mozilla and how to disable them, I’d be pretty happy with it. However, if they’re unilaterally collecting data and not really separating concerns, then I’ll need to find something else.